Remote Staff Engineer

Summary

Join our team for the opportunity to work with smart, passionate people every day, get extreme ownership over your work and results, and be treated like the expert you are. As a member of the Apps Team, you will define a strategy for reducing maintenance costs and improve performance and resiliency of existing Native Apps, lead the implementation of new Native Apps, and mentor engineers within the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years experience in building and scaling high traffic systems
• Significant experience with event-driven systems and eventual consistency
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs at scale, ensuring resiliency and consistency
• Experience with continuous development/deployment

Responsibilities

• Define a strategy for reducing maintenance costs and improve performance and resiliency of existing Native Apps
• Lead the implementation of new Native Apps, integrating the whole Gorgias product suite with new Partners
• Work with adjacent teams to improve the way Native Apps integrate with all the products in Gorgias’s suite
• Mentor engineers within the team, to raise the engineering quality bar
• Work with senior engineers across the company to draw the future direction of our engineering practices
• Support our customers directly with issues on the Team’s domain once every 6 weeks

Preferred Qualifications

• Strongly desirable experience with Kafka, Python
• You care about working on applications that are putting the customer's needs first and you thrive in a fast-paced and distributed environment
• Experience with front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue, Next) is a plus

Benefits

• 5-week vacation
• Paid sick leave
• 6 weeks full remote/year
• Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
• Monthly lunch stipend of $300
• Health insurance with up to 100% of premiums paid for employees - Anthem explore our plans
• Retirement: Gorgias contributes to your 401k 100% of the first 3% of deferred W-2 income, 50% of the next 2% of deferred W-2 income
• Get up to $700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
• Get up to $2000 of learning material and wellness support per year! This includes $1500 for learning material (such as books, courses, and individual coaching sessions) directly linked to your job scope, as well as a $500 wellness budget
• Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we’re going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year, we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats!